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Medical Device Cybersecurity Nerd. Listened to sea shanties before they were cool. Love me a good #SBOM. Mind in the clouds, body currently in #Chicago area.

2026-02-27

@munin OK that's hilarious. I can take an educated guess on what happened based on the fact that numbers are actually said in Spanish. The English text must have been routed to the Spanish tts. Unsure if they thought the service should auto translate it (which would have its own accessibility issues since you really want a certified translator with domain knowledge to actually do that kind of thing) or if it just a typo (es->en) but either way its obvious that absolutely no one did any kind of QA on it. Not even a simple smoke test.

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I love this, so Ijpm@aus.social
2026-02-24

“the committed support for Oracle Solaris until at least 2037”

The “angry chasing goose meme” - a pair of comic panels from theycantalk.com. The top panel contains a goose head and face, with narrowed eyes appearing suspicious and asking “what happens in 2038”. The bottom panel contains a goose with head forward and down, aggressively chasing a person and asking “what happens in 2038 motherfucker?”
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i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

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Jerry 🦙💝🦙jerry@infosec.exchange
2026-02-23
2026-02-22

@tante @grrrr_shark and the better you are in the foreign language, the worse it gets because people don't have that subconscious "oh this is their 2nd language. I better speak simply" trigger.

Paul Taylor has a great bit about this (Warning: strong language in both English and French. You can turn on translated CC if you don't speak French)

youtu.be/EuxN0wqhNfw

2026-02-21
2026-02-20

@Nonilex If I saw that in a dystopian movie, I would critique it as a little too on-the-nose. And yet... Here we are.

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K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor: :clippy:reverseics@infosec.exchange
2026-02-20
a list of seasons:

Winter
Fool's Spring
Second Winter <--- You are here
Spring of Deception
Third Winter
The Pollening
Mud Season
Actual Spring
Summer
Hell's Front Porch
False Fall
Second Summer
Actual Fall
2026-02-20

@Viss @briankrebs unsure on the first question. But come on. You already know the answer to the last 2.

2026-02-20

@briankrebs Not gunna lie. I did NOT expect this kind of rationality from the current supreme court. Its refreshing. Dare I get my hopes up for logical decisions that have a basis in reality in the future? (Probably not. But one can dream.)

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The Bone Collectormoopsy@infosec.exchange
2026-02-19

I have an idea for a project, but hoping to get more info about what might already exist.

Are there any open source, completely community-driven, public data, CTI-like systems or platforms out there? I am not looking for a TIP, but something that focuses on aggregating sources and constructing complex relationships.

I don't have (m)any followers here yet, so boosts are appreciated.

#threatintel #threatintelligence #cti #osint

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2026-02-14

printers are a kind of DAC

2026-02-14

@deneb does that mean cameras are a form of DAC? 🤔

2026-02-14

@float13 corn based ethanol is kind of that right? Just with a bunch more steps.

2026-02-14

@FritzAdalis @cR0w @da_667 well what you really need is one source of truth that manages everything. Here buy my tool that is better than all the rest and can do that.

*2 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars later* we now have 7 source of truth asset management systems partially implemented.

2026-02-14

RE: s.yelvington.com/@steve/116068

Me learning about "Grandfather clauses" in Jim crow era voting restrictions: "wow that was so obviously and transparently discriminatory. Good thing that sort of thing could never happen now a days"

Oh to be so naïve ....

2026-02-13

@catsalad When you fall down those stairs, will it sound like... Rock and roll ?

2026-02-12

@0xabad1dea as someone who uses discord mostly as IRC but with emojis and images... What *are* the main reasons people use discord? Like this seems like there should be so many open alternatives, but I'm obviously missing something.

2026-02-11

@SeanCasten oh no. Nena tried to warn us about this decades ago! youtu.be/hiwgOWo7mDc

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